A man who allegedly pointed a gun at a customer inside the Cub Foods in St. Anthony and then fired a shot into the ceiling of the store late Sunday has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident.
Police arrested Ethan Daniel Frank Marks, 24, of Minneapolis, on Tuesday after employees from the Target store in Northeast Minneapolis reported that Marks, who was with a woman, shoplifted from the store on Monday, according to felony charges filed Thursday.
A man at Cub Foods in St. Anthony who police say pointed a handgun and shot a round into the ceiling. (Courtesy of the St. Anthony Police Department)
Officers were called to the Cub on Silver Lake Road about 11:30 p.m. Sunday after reports of a shot fired with no one injured.
A customer said he saw a man and woman who appeared to be shoplifting, the charges say. The customer said that he and the man yelled at one another, even as the man began to leave the store.
While they were in the exit lobby, the man pointed a handgun at the customer, then fired a shot at the ceiling and ran, the charges say.
Officers recovered a 9 mm shell casing, and a store employee and video surveillance corroborated what the customer told police.
St. Anthony police released photos of the man and woman on Monday, asking the public’s help in identifying them.
Surveillance video from the Target captured the license plate of the car the alleged shoplifter and woman left in on Monday. Officers went to the 600 block of Adams Street Northeast and arrested Marks, who was walking a small dog.
Marks ran, but was arrested. He was wearing a satchel that included a .380 Ruger with a round in the chamber and more than 40 grams of methamphetamine, the charges say.
Marks was charged with one count each of second-degree assault, threats of violence and reckless discharge of a firearm.
Marks is under investigation for second-degree assault, reckless discharge of a firearm and drug possession for an incident in St. Paul on July 1, the charges say.
The recovery of the gun and drugs in Minneapolis will be presented to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for possible charges.
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